Teaching together and learning together - Primary science student teachers’ and their mentors’ joint teaching and learning in the primary classroom

Nilsson, Pernilla

Halmstad University, School of Teacher Education (LUT), Research on Education and Learning within the Department of Teacher Education (FULL).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5283-7038

van Driel, Jan

Leiden Univ, ICLON, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands.

2010 (English)In: Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, ISSN 0742-051X, Vol. 26, no 6, 1309-1318 p.Article in journal (Refereed) Published

Abstract [en]

This paper focuses on what and how primary science student teachers and their mentors learn from planning and reflecting together on each other’s science lessons for pupils aged 7-9. The student teachers had had training in scientific knowledge, but only brief experience of teaching. The mentors were well experienced in the pedagogy of teaching and mentoring, but did not feel confident about their science content knowledge and the teaching of science. Throughout the process of teaching and reflecting together the student teachers and the mentors expressed several specific examples of their joint learning.